Hommage au «Raphaël des fleurs», Pierre-Joseph Redouté. Adapté de notre fameuse édition format XL, ce livre réunit certaines de ses plus belles gravures issues des remarquables ouvrages de Redouté, Roses, Liliacés et Choix des plus belles fleurs et de quelques branches des plus beaux fruits. D'un trait éblouissant de précision et de beauté, Redouté transporte le lecteur dans les sublimes serres et jardins d'un Paris disparu.
150 Gardens You Need to Visit before You Die présente les jardins visitables les plus emblématiques du monde contemporain, où l'on trouve un intérêt historique particulier, une flore unique ou une valeur architecturale reconnaissable. On y retrouve notamment les Kew Gardens à Londres, le jardin de Monet à Giverny, le Jardin Botanique de Singapour ou encore le jardin sec du temple Ryoan-Ji à Tokyo.
Si Paris est une ville dense moins bien dotée que d'autres capitales en " espaces verts ", peu nombreuses sont, en revanche, les grandes villes qui, du fait de leur histoire et de leur climat, peuvent se prévaloir d'une aussi riche variété de jardins. Le pittoresque y côtoie la géométrie, les conceptions les plus modernes voisinent avec les tracés et les manières anciennes, et les essences exotiques ont été si bien acclimatées qu'elles sont devenues communes. Ceci sans oublier les innombrables jardins privés, tantôt réduits à une jardinière sur un balcon, tantôt vastes et secrets. Tel est le prodige qu'une culture bi-millénaire a réussi à accomplir : Paris en ses jardins n'est pas moins superbe qu'en ses rues, ses places et ses palais, et Paris sans ses jardins ne serait pas la capitale la plus visitée du monde.
The only monograph to chronicle the life and work of one of the most important figures in American landscape architecture.
Beatrix Farrand, the only female founder of the American Society of Landscape Architects, is one of the most important landscape architects of the early twentieth century. Today the scope of her work and her influence on the profession are widely acknowledged, and her gardens are being studied, restored, and opened to the public. A long-awaited updated edition of the 2009 definitive monograph, Beatrix Farrand: Garden Artist, Landscape Architect chronicles the life and work of one of the most important figures in American landscape architecture.
Born into a prominent New York family (she was Edith Wharton's niece), Farrand designed lavish gardens for the leaders of society, including the Harknesses, the Rockefellers, and the Blisses. Ultimately, her portfolio extended to college and university campuses, including Princeton, Yale, and the University of Chicago, and public gardens, the Santa Barbara Botanic Garden and the Rose Garden at the New York Botanical Garden among them. Her best-known design is the landscape at Dumbarton Oaks in Washington, D.C., originally a private residence with extensive grounds and now a research center for Harvard University surrounded by a naturalistic park restored and maintained by the National Park Service. Deeply influenced by the English garden designer Gertrude Jekyll, Farrand was known for broad expanses of lawn with deep swaths of borders planted in a subtle palette of foliage and flowers. In her public work, she adapted this design strategy to create paths and plantings that define the character of the space and the hecirculation through it.
Heavily illustrated with archival images and photographs of her gardens at their peak--many taken especially for this book, Beatrix Farrand: Garden Artist, Landscape Architect also displays beautiful watercolor wash renderings of her designs, now preserved at College of Environmental Design of the University of California at Berkeley. The new edition includes updated images that reflect the current state of gardens including the Peggy Rockefeller Rose Garden at the New York Botanical Garden, the International House Courtyard at the University of Chicago, Garland Farm (Farrand's last home and garden, which has recently been restored), Dumbarton Oaks, Dumbarton Oaks Park (which was not included in the first edition), among others.
The book concludes with a comprehensive list of Farrand's commissions and the gardens open to the public, providing direction for further study and exploration. It also features a new preface outlining the milestones in research since the first edition's publication, updated details about ownership and renovations of many properties, and a revised bibliography including articles and books published over the past ten years.
Published to coincide with the 150th anniversary of Farrand's birth and written by landscape historian and preservation consultant Judith B. Tankard, Beatrix Farrand: Garden Artist, Landscape Architect takes readers on a tour of Farrand's finest works, celebrating her influence on succeeding generations of women landscape architects.
Orchids have long held a place of esteem and fascination in the horticultural world. In the 19th century, orchid collecting reached new fanatical heights, with explorers dispatched to every corner of the globe in search of new varieties that could be auctioned at extravagant prices, and orchids are still one of the most popular flowers to breed and buy to this day. These beautiful, diverse flowers are one of the two largest families of flowering plants, with over 30,000 species and over 181,500 hybrids and cultivars.
The RHS Orchid Committee have commissioned watercolours of over 7,000 award-winning hybrids that demonstrate particular value in their fabulous array of colours, patterns, sizes and shapes. Through these paintings, stories of high stakes orchid breeding and exhibiting are explored, with a cast of characters who helped shape the horticultural world we know today, alongside the dedicated artists who still support their endeavours.
'Rich and unusual, a book to treasure. Few recent gardening books come anywhere close to its style, intelligence and depth. Moves between Lively's own horticultural life and a broad history of gardening' Observer 'Wonderful. A manifesto of horticultural delight' Literary Review 'Beautiful. Perfect for literary garden lovers' Good Housekeeping 'Exquisite and original' Daily Telegraph 'Enchanting. Reading this book is like walking with a wise, humorous guide through a series of garden rooms . . . and finding that vistas suddenly open out, on to history, fashion, politics, reflections on time and the taming of nature' Tablet 'A perfect bedside book. In part it's a memoir of the gardens in Lively's life, starting with the exotic Egyptian garden of her childhood and continuing up to her small present-day garden in a north London square' Sunday Express 'A gentle survey of the garden's place in Western culture, which morphs into a personal meditation on time, memory and a life well lived' i 'Scholarly bedtime reading' The Times , Books of the Year
This is the definitive and most authoritative book ever published on the glories of English gardening--historically and horticulturally, a tour de force.
An unprecedented in-depth look at the English garden by one of Britain's foremost garden writers and authorities, this book showcases the enduring appeal of the English garden whose verdant lawns and borders of colorful plants are the inspiration for garden lovers worldwide. Kathryn Bradley-Hole--the longtime garden columnist for Country Life--takes a fresh look at more than seventy gardens from across England and distills the essence of what makes the English garden style so sought after.
Seasonal photographs capture the gardens--some grand, some personal, some celebrated, some rarely photographed--at their finest moments, accompanied by sparkling, insightful text. Featuring photographs from the unparalleled archives of Country Life, the full story of the English garden is here, from medieval monastery gardens to the Victorians and the Arts and Crafts movement to the twenty-first century. Designs by many of the horticultural world's greats are amply featured, including Gertrude Jekyll, Capability Brown, Piet Oudolf, and Arne Maynard, as well as gardens famous the world over--Sissinghurst, Hidcote, and Great Dixter--alongside new and less-well-known ones, many open to the public.
An A-to-Z compendium of more than 200 garden elements, styles, features, and ornaments for gardeners around the globe.
Following the bestselling The Gardener's Garden, garden expert and historian Toby Musgrave explores the creative art of garden-making through more than 200 elements and features.
This is the ultimate reference guide, with entries ranging from Allée and Bower to Formal, Native Planting, and Xeriscape - each illustrated with examples drawn from historic and contemporary gardens around the world. Whether tending an English cottage garden or a Japanese Zen landscape, gardeners and garden lovers everywhere will be inspired as never before.
Monet fait jaillir la couleur, fait vibrer sa toile. Délaissant le détail, il peint des émotions, des impressions. Par dérision sa peinture est qualifiée " d'impressionniste ". Après Bougival, Louveciennes, Argenteuil... Il est toujours en quête d'un lieu où poser pinceaux et chevalet, un havre de paix, un jardin de fleurs. Ce sera Giverny pour lequel il se fait jardinier, paysagiste, architecte, coloriste. Son jardin se confond avec sa peinture, ses fleurs deviennent sa palette. En contrebas, de l'autre côté de la route, il acquiert ce qui deviendra son " Jardin d'eau ". Sur l'étang, il édifie un " pont japonais " et fait pousser des nymphéas... Le jardin de Giverny, reflet de sa passion et de son génie, est devenu l'un des jardins les plus connus au monde
Edith Holden a vécu dans la campagne anglaise du Warwickshire au tournant du XXe siècle, où elle réalisa ce livre. Reproduit à l'identique, ce fac-similé est le témoignage d'une vie s'épanouissant dans la nature, où les chroniques du quotidien ont pour sujet les plantes et les changements de saisons. Illustrée par ses propres soins de ses observations champêtres, ce journal d'une dame sous l'époque édouardienne nous plonge dans un passé romantique.
Dans cet ouvrage, Monty Don, star anglaise de l'horticulture et animateur d'émissions télévisées sur les jardins, s'associe au photographe Derry Moore pour proposer une visite guidée de jardins américains remarquables, qu'ils soient plublics ou privés.
Co-édité avec le magazine Bloom, Into Green est une invitation à se reconnecter à la nature, quel que soit l'environnement urbain qui nous entoure. Il rassemble des projets, des sagesses et des idées pour créer de nouvelles interactions vertueuses pour l'esprit et bonnes pour la nature : des rituels simples pour la vie quotidienne, des faits bons à savoir pour percevoir le monde différemment, des projets créatifs, de la teinture de tissus avec des plantes à la confection d'un terrarium.
The Plant Clinic is a revolutionary new guide to reignite your health and transform your life. Expert herbalist Erin Lovell Verinder decodes healing with plant medicine to remedy over 150 common health complaints across: Vitality; Immunity; Detoxification; The Gut; Hormone Health; Mums and Bubs; Hair and Skin; Emotions, Mind and Spirit.
Nettle and Oat Straw Infusion is essential to bring people back from burnout; Liver Loving Greens Powder is a wonder for detox support; Iron Lift Slow Brew Syrup is for everyone with low iron levels; and the Lovers' Oxymel is delicious, helpful and so different from other libido support. With over 150 recipes, including Lung Love Syrup, Zen Day Tea, The Breakout Salve, Eczema Cream, Kidney Tone Tea and Shifting Stagnancy Tea, this book is the definitive healing bible for modern day living.
Sharing deep herbal wisdom along with the ultimate First Aid Kit for soothing bruises, aches and pains and much, much more, this is the book to make you glow.
Deyrolle-the legendary Parisian establishment dedicated to nature, art, and education-shares twenty-one vintage educational plates devoted to trees, fruit, flowers, buds, and seeds from its archives, the earliest of which were produced around 1871 by the «Deyrolle Educational Museum.» From the majestic oak to the humble carrot, and from colorful exotic fruit to regional agricultural maps, this selection of high-quality, easily detachable nature prints showcases the charm of French botanical art.
Emmanuelle Polle's text on the back of each print provides the keys to understanding and appreciating these exceptional plates, in a veritable homage to the plant kingdom. The «Gardener Prince» Louis Albert de Broglie-who owns Deyrolle and is known for his long-standing commitment to biodiversity, sustainable agriculture, and environmental protection-contributes a foreword.
B>Perfect for flower fans, this little love letter to the dahlia is bursting with tips, tricks and facts.br>;/b>br>br>Dahlias are the showboats of the flower world--colorful, flamboyant, and spectacular. They''re also one of the most satisfying flowers to grow, with a long season, plentiful blooms, and adaptable to most climates with proper care. They''re very easy to propagate, and can be hybridized.;There are numerous dahlia flower forms and more than 50,000 recognized cultivars! This charming little hardcover book includes 60+ full-color botanical illustrations, basic botany and history, everything you need to know to grow gorgeous blooms in the garden, as well as dividing tubers to propagate more flowers, tips for creating beautiful arrangements and preserving flowers, quotes, lore, and notable gardens and growers.;Like a bouquet of dahlias, this book is an affordable little luxury for gardeners and flower lovers --the perfect hostess gift or mother''s day present.br>;
